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Harrison & Funnell 1964

Harrison, C.G.A. and Funnell, B.M. (1964). Relationship of palaeomagnetic reversals and micropalaeontology in two late Caenozoic cores from the Pacific Ocean. Nature 204(4958): 566.

Deep-sea cores from the equatorial Pacific exhibit evidence of a reversal of magnetism at levels corresponding to the upper limit of occurrence of the radiolarian Pterocanium prismatium in the cores, generally considered to approximate the Tertiary-Quaternary boundary. If the reversal of magnetism recorded in the cores corresponds with that recorded in continental and oceanic island basalts, which is dated at 0.98/0.99 million years, an intra-Quaternary age for this level is implied.

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Cenozoic; Cenozoic deep-sea cores; Cenozoic paleomagnetism, microfauna; deep-sea cores; deep-sea sediment cores; marine, geology; micropaleontology; Pacific Ocean; paleomagnetism;, paleomagnetism-microfauna; Quaternary, 07, Oceanography

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